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The poems in Twice Told roam through Midwest and western landscapes haunted by shards of nineteenth-century gothic novels, war stories, warnings, and the ghosts of known and imagined lovers, mothers, soldiers, trainmates, and mistresses. These are poems interested in narrative framing, repetition, rumor, humor, and hearsay; poems that loop back in on themselves as they compulsively repeat the details of furious, apparitional pasts-implicating both teller and reader in their impacts.

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Publié par	University of Akron Press
Date de parution	10 janvier 2019
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781629221717
Langue	English

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Twice Told
AKRON SERIES IN POETRY
AKRON SERIES IN POETRY
Mary Biddinger, Editor

Caryl Pagel, Twice Told
Emily Rosko, Weather Inventions
Emilia Phillips, Empty Clip
Anne Barngrover, Brazen Creature
Matthew Guenette, Vasectomania
Sandra Simonds, Further Problems with Pleasure
Leslie Harrison, The Book of Endings
Emilia Phillips, Groundspeed
Philip Metres, Pictures at an Exhibition: A Petersburg Album
Jennifer Moore, The Veronica Maneuver
Brittany Cavallaro, Girl-King
Oliver de la Paz, Post Subject: A Fable
John Repp, Fat Jersey Blues
Emilia Phillips, Signaletics
Seth Abramson, Thievery
Steve Kistulentz, Little Black Daydream
Jason Bredle, Carnival
Emily Rosko, Prop Rockery
Alison Pelegrin, Hurricane Party
Matthew Guenette, American Busboy
Joshua Harmon, Le Spleen de Poughkeepsie
Titles published since 2010.
For a complete listing of titles published in the series,
go to www.uakron.edu/uapress/poetry .
Twice Told
Caryl Pagel
Copyright © 2019 by The University of Akron Press
All rights reserved • First Edition 2019 • Manufactured in the United States of America.
All inquiries and permission requests should be addressed to the publisher,
The University of Akron Press, Akron, Ohio 44325-1703.
ISBN : 978-1-629221-69-4 (paper)
ISBN : 978-1-629221-70-0 (ePDF)
ISBN : 978-1-629221-71-7 (ePub)
A catalog record for this title is available from the Library of Congress.
∞The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of ANSI/NISO Z 39.48–1992 (Permanence of Paper).
Cover image: Heidi Reszies
Cover design: Amy Freels
Twice Told was designed and typeset in Bembo, with Futura display, by Amy Freels and printed on sixty-pound natural and bound by Bookmasters of Ashland, Ohio.
Contents
Old Wars
Telephone
The Traveler
Rumors
Four Dead Men
Ghost Towns
Motley Cow
The Badlands
Supposed To
Mausoleum
Interior & Wall
Vision #1
Vision #2
Vision #3
Vision #4
Vision #5
Vision #6
Vision #7
Vision #8
Vision #9
Vision #10
The Heart
Home
A Little Apparitional
Museum
Into The Woods
Construction of a Coffin
The Haunting
Scenic, SD
Young Man Afraid of His Horses
Olde Main Street Inn
You are my other country and I find it hard going —Lorine Niedecker
Old Wars
You are trying to remember how
it happened               You are trying to
remember these events in a sensible
order             The narrator you think met
the old woman on a train
She had been to war or
at least you think you recall
reading that she said she had
The story started on the train
The narrator in this case was
mostly incidental              The narrator in this
case was made to listen patiently
and account for              The woman’s tale
you recall was too strange to
be told straight               You needed to
hear it from a distance          From
another mouth or source               The narrator
met the woman on a train
She had been to war               The
story was about the woman and
her experiences at war or more
precisely in it as a victim
and a corpse and someone who
was marched straight to and through
the brink of death—who gazed
deep into death’s vile and wintry
irises—before saving the crowd of
innocent people she had been marching
with                  They were on the side
of the road                         You remember this
detail                     They were on a dusty
black road being marched to death
and you know this because the
narrator is delivering this information within
a story via another story—a
story told by the same old
woman who may or may not
have existed whom he may or
may not have met on a
train who may or may not
but most likely was a part
of the war                         She was not
a hero                         She must have been
a hero you think for having
protected all of those people for
sacrificing her own soul her own
hands her own fragile sense of
self and yet there are no
heroes here                         Not the patient
narrator                        Not you for trying to
remember                         Not even the woman who
told the story for war knows
no heroes and makes a fool
of every witness which—right now—
through memory—is both you and
this incidental narrator and whomever you
are telling the story to                         You
are trying to remember how it
happened                         There was a woman on
a train                     This woman told a
story not to you but you
read the story that she told
from the narrator’s point of view
and now you know it                         How
she abandoned her own consciousness to
swap bodies with the officer                        She
parted with her own old heart
She left her mind behind                  She
became a monster and master and
through this brave and magical transformation
was able to save a small
population of souls or so she
said that day to the one
you know as her train mate
Telephone
There was fear involved—yes—some
fear and hesitancy to discuss what
you knew you had done but
had not yet told anyone                   It
was nothing             &#x00A

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